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作者:van Tatenhove, Jan; Edelenbos, Jurian; Klok, Pieter-Jan
作者单位:Wageningen University & Research; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of Twente
摘要:A number of countries use forms of interactive policy-making to increase the influence of citizens on decision making. Since there has also been an increase in citizen participation in The Netherlands over the last decade, in this paper, we provide a comparative analysis of 8 interactive projects initiated by the Dutch central government. The central aim of the paper is to understand processes of power in interactive policy-making. We do so by raising two central questions: ( 1) how do power p...
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作者:Verheul, Wouter Jan; Schaap, Linze
作者单位:Tilburg University
摘要:The questions executive mayors face regarding the fulfillment of their leadership role often reveal dilemmas and paradoxes. The subject of this article is how executive mayors cope with these dilemmas and paradoxes and whether or not the selection procedure matters. It presents results of a comparison of English elected mayors' interpretations of three dilemmas and Dutch appointed mayors' expectations of those same dilemmas. The first dilemma involves the creation of a sense of community versu...
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作者:Goldsmith, Mike
作者单位:University of Salford
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作者:Jacobs, Keith
作者单位:University of Tasmania
摘要:This paper draws on the findings from a research project on partnership arrangements between the police and housing departments on three Australian public housing estates to tackle problems associated with illicit drug activity and anti-social behaviour (ASB). The analysis focused on the setting up of the partnerships and the interactions that followed from these institutional arrangements. The assumption that informs the paper is that when studying partnerships there is a need for a more crit...
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作者:Van Ryzin, Gregg G.; Charbonneau, Etienne
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
摘要:Citizen surveys often measure service use as well as perceived performance, typically in the form of quality or satisfaction ratings. But little attention has been paid to the relationship between public service use and satisfaction. How do the service ratings or satisfaction judgements of frequent users differ from those of infrequent users? Is the direction of the use-satisfaction relationship positive or negative? Or perhaps non-linear? And does the direction or form of the relationship dif...